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SQL Server DBA - Manchester - £40-50K

SQL Server DBA - Manchester £40-50K.

Our growing client based in Manchester is currently looking for an experienced SQL Server database administrator (DBA).

Unlike other companies you will not be a tiny cog in a corporate machine, but a key part of the business and instrumental in its growth.

Main activities:

, Ensure all database servers are backed up in a way that meets the business's Recovery Point Objectives (RPO)
, Test backups to ensure we can meet the business' Recovery Time Objectives (RTO)
, Monitor database servers to ensure overall resilience and integrity
, Maintain transactional replication
, Ongoing index maintenance and tuning
, Monitor application stored procedures to proactively identify performance issues and tune these issue where necessary
, Provide SQL coding/database design advice to the development team
, Troubleshoot SQL Server service outages as they occur
, As new systems are brought in-house, choose whether to use clustering, log shipping, mirroring, Windows Azure, or other technologies
, Install and configure new SQL Servers
, Review all SQL code from the development team
, Deploy database change scripts provided by internal Development team
, When performance issues arise, determine the most effective way to increase performance including hardware purchases, server configuration changes, or index/query changes
, Document the company's database environment

In delivering these responsibilities, your focus will be to:

, Have immediate responsibility for all live database servers
, Be the first point of contact for database related errors
, Drive technical excellence into all SQL coding
, Provide visibility to senior management on server performance and possible improvements